MACADEMIAN GIRL GOES TO CHINA: DAY #4 BEIJING | THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

September 22, 2014

Katie Melua – Nine Million Bicycles

There are a lot of things which, before they appear on the blog, have to spend some time in my closet until I find a proper scenery for them. The today’s cream maxi dress has spent some time on a shelf tagged: „Wear only on a very spectacular occasion” as well. Its pattern, reminding me of picturesque Dolce&Gabbana outfits made me pick something equally spectacular for the photoshoot. When I found out that I would spend the begining of August in China, I didn’t hesitate to pack it. The Great Wall of China, one of the Seven Wonders of the World (visible from space!), is one of these out of the studio places which, up to now, I’ve been visualising only in my dreams- in the most beautiful ones. „A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, said a Chinese philosopher, Confucius, and I’m going to add that the first step is just to dream. I always say that if you can dream it, you can acomplish it as well! The outcome of this dream photoshoot has exceeded my wildest expectations and I have to admit, this must be the most complex post in the blog’s history. The airy material of the dress was going up with the blows of the wind, its pastel shade stressing the blue sky and cherry branches, rambling to the top were a magical connector with the surrounding nature. What’s more, its romantic cut, sensually showing the back perfectly matches the quite bare and ascetic Wall. I felt exactly like a Goddess of Nature! In order to put some more impact on the Oriental aesthetics I hid my eyes behind a hand painted fan and decorated my wrists with golden bracelets. I was born in the Year of Snake, so one of them perfectly gives my age away, hah. Yet as the Orient doesn’t exist without a shine, I gave a final touch to to the look by adding a clutch with a glittering stone like fastening. It’s only one of a lot of jewels that I was able to steal from the not so careful (yet still in love with shining objects) dragons from the floating restaurant 😉